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CVE-2026-56668: ZITADEL: Unauthorized Token Privilege Escalation in OAuth2 Token Exchange

HighCVSS 8.1 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 32/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.41% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • Fixed version: zitadel zitadel 4.15.3.
  • Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).

Low priority for now. Upgrade to zitadel zitadel 4.15.3 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

ZITADEL is an open source identity management platform. Prior to 4.15.3, ZITADEL's OAuth2 Token Exchange endpoint for urn:ietf:params:oauth:grant-type:token-exchange does not verify that the subject token belongs to the requesting client or that requested scopes remain within the original token's scopes, allowing a low-privilege token to be exchanged for elevated permissions at another application. This issue is fixed in version 4.15.3.

Published
Jul 10, 2026
Updated
Jul 14, 2026
EPSS
0.4% · 35th percentile

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Action score

32

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
32 / 40 · 8.1 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.4%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD
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CNA · GitHub_M
8.1
NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.

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Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (GitHub_M). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • zitadel zitadel

    • < 4.15.3affected

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

EcosystemPackageAffected rangeFix
Gogithub.com/zitadel/zitadelfrom 0—
Gogithub.com/zitadel/zitadelbefore 4.15.34.15.3
openSUSE:Leap 16.0govulncheck-vulndbbefore 0.0.20260916T180043-160000.1.10.0.20260916T180043-160000.1.1
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 16.0govulncheck-vulndbbefore 0.0.20260916T180043-160000.1.10.0.20260916T180043-160000.1.1

Same product

zitadel: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2026-109372ZITADEL 3.0.0 before 4.19.2 Account Takeover via SAML Identity-Provider Confusion
    37Monitor
  • CVE-2026-105215ZITADEL before 4.16.2 Account Pre-Hijacking via Forged External IdP Callback
    37Monitor
  • CVE-2026-105209ZITADEL before 3.4.15 and 4.17.1 Cross-Organization Account Takeover via Passkey Enrollment
    37Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2026-56666Jul 10, 2026 · ZITADEL: Auto-linking by email: IdP-side email verification is not checked
    19Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2026-56667Jul 10, 2026 · ZITADEL: Stored XSS via Default URI Redirect in Login V2
    29Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2026-54693Jul 29, 2026 · ZITADEL Users Can Self-Verify Email/Phone via API
    32Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / packageFixed versionSource
zitadel zitadel4.15.3 · descriptionVendor (CNA)
Go:github.com/zitadel/zitadel4.15.3Package registry (OSV)
opensuse:govulncheck-vulndb0.0.20260916T180043-160000.1.1 · openSUSE:Leap 16.0Package registry (OSV)
suse:govulncheck-vulndb0.0.20260916T180043-160000.1.1 · SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 16.0Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

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Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

  • CVE-2026-10520986 days apartZITADEL before 3.4.15 and 4.17.1 Cross-Organization Account Takeover via Passkey Enrollment
    37Monitor
  • CVE-2026-119129111 days apartZITADEL 3.0.0 through 3.4.15 and 4.0.0 before 4.19.5 Account Takeover via Device Authorization Approval
    34Monitor
  • CVE-2026-27946135 days apartZITADEL Users Can Self-Verify Email/Phone via UpdateHumanUser API
    32Monitor

National notice (Türkiye Cybersecurity Directorate / USOM)

Official security notices citing this record; remediation advice is on the agency's page.

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Not on record for this CVE: EPSS history · researcher credit · public bounty program.

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
  • A low-privileged account is enough.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
high · data can be read
Integrity
high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
none
Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
High
Integrity impact
High
Availability impact
None

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-862 · Missing Authorization

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

nvd-secondary

Attack context

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References

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